Sunday, January 24, 2010

Not much to say about the KS development as usual (I am currently working on directing Lilly's Act 2, and if you think that this is any kind of progress indicator, you're wrong). But, there are a couple of other things worth mentioning that might be of interest to people not intimately familiar with what's going on.

Personas

Firefox 3.6 is out now (and if you're using Firefox, you should have gotten the update prompt by now), and with that, Personas have become standard. These are essentially wallpapers for your browser window chrome. Since they're easy to make, you can now now have your KS character of choice staring at you all the time. Cool, right? In fact it's not cool at all, but anyway, here they are:

Rin is missing because her Persona contained the mural, hence boobies, hence it was not approved. (if you are curious or want to stick it to The Man by making your own, it looked like this). IT'S ART YOU PHILISTINES! I made a new one but it's stuck in the approval pipeline. Once it's through you'll find it along with the rest at my account page. There are also a couple of tweaks to the existing ones based on feedback submitted, but they'll hopefully have the same ID.

Dakimakura

In case you haven't been paying attention, there's been a trend in the KS fanartist scene to draw hug pillows. So far, pretty much every major character but Hanako has been (un)covered, a fact that amuses me to no end. Even though these are technically not unsafe for work, you'll probably not want to be caught looking at scantily clad disabled girls (or men) at work in any case, so proceed with caution. The exception to this is of course Lilly, which is not safe for work in any definition of the term.

We have a Twitter now, for things that are too unimportant, irrelevant or vapid to warrant a blog post. In case you don't like unimportant, irrelevant or vapid things... well, then you are probably not using Twitter anyway. If nothing else, it's a decent way to keep up with Mishimmie uploads. Also, in keeping with the theme of this post, it will be like you really have friends.FOLLOW US ON TWITTER!

4LS Twitters

About Katawa Shoujo

Katawa Shoujo is a bishoujo-style visual novel set in the fictional Yamaku High School for disabled children, located somewhere in modern Japan. Hisao Nakai, who has had a congenital heart disorder diagnosed just a few months ago, finds his life turned upside down when he moves to a new town and school after a long hospitalization. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends and eventually have romantic relationships with one of five main female characters.